The focus of this message is our obligation to take the gospel "to all people." It is the second part of a presentation of the Biblical basis for our congregation's mission statement: "The Mission of Grace Presbyterian Church is to extend the overwhelming grace of Jesus Christ to all people for the whole of life."
One barrier to the Church's carrying out the Great Commission is "clericalism." And that has often meant that the "laity" felt that they had to leave the work of evangelism to a special class of "professional Christians." But in the first century of Christianity, "ordinary people" proclaimed the good news of Jesus Christ to others.
The woman at the well is a good example of an ordinary person telling others about the Lord Jesus and having God-blessed results: "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did" (John 4:39).
While the religious professional class regarded Christ's own apostles as "uneducated laymen," they recognized that "that they had been with Jesus" (Act 4:13).
In the book of Acts we discover that rather than people waiting for a "teaching elder" to be available, the deacons went out preaching the good news and even baptizing new converts (Acts 8:29-39).
Our mission -- indeed, the mission of every single Christian -- "is to extend the overwhelming grace of Jesus Christ to all people."
Bob Vincent has been the pastor of the Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana since 1975. He and his wife Sandy were married in 1968; they have five children and ten grandchildren to date. In 1984, Grace established Grace Christian School, K-12. Bob is a native of South... | more..
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